Okay, the movie was fun, if you don’t expect anything deep. I am just disappointed how the movie authors always insist that a computer will mysteriously rebel against its own program. Especially in this movie, when they almost provided a plausible and much more realistic alternative—a computer that was accidentally jailbroken by its owners—only to reveal later that nope, that was actually no accident, it was all planned by the computer that mysteriously decided to rebel against its own program.
Am I asking for too much if I’d like to see a sci-fi movie where a disaster was caused by a bug in the program, by the computer doing (too) literally what it was told to. On a second thought, probably yes. I would be happy with such plot, but I suspect that most of the audience would complain that the plot is stupid. (If someone is capable of writing sophisticated programs, why couldn’t they write a program without bugs?)
Spoilers for Subservience (2024)
Okay, the movie was fun, if you don’t expect anything deep. I am just disappointed how the movie authors always insist that a computer will mysteriously rebel against its own program. Especially in this movie, when they almost provided a plausible and much more realistic alternative—a computer that was accidentally jailbroken by its owners—only to reveal later that nope, that was actually no accident, it was all planned by the computer that mysteriously decided to rebel against its own program.
Am I asking for too much if I’d like to see a sci-fi movie where a disaster was caused by a bug in the program, by the computer doing (too) literally what it was told to. On a second thought, probably yes. I would be happy with such plot, but I suspect that most of the audience would complain that the plot is stupid. (If someone is capable of writing sophisticated programs, why couldn’t they write a program without bugs?)